In reply to Wally (Forum Supporter) :
Impossible to calculate if your audience won't give you a hint.
Example- She doesn't eat beef. I didn't know this until AFTER I'd taken her to a cheeseburger joint I adore asked her if she was cool, she agreed, ate the food there, etc. This was about two years ago. She ate a berkeleyin cheeseburger when she doesn't eat beef rather than be confrontational.
I can't work with that E36 M3. I gotta have a hint. I'm good, but i'm not a magician.
Beer Baron said: One of the last series in that he wrote were the stories of Tiffany Aching. These were young-adult novels about a girl learning to grow up to be a witch. But not like Hogwarts stuff.Most of her job as a witch consisted of small acts of kindness: clipping the toenails of an old man, helping someone do their chores, helping people through birth and death. The ultimate moral of the stories is that being a witch and real magic isn't grand powerful things that change the world. It's the tiny things we do to help people that any *could* do, but no one else does.
I think that series may be Pratchett's *best* work when taken in total in terms of accessibility based on age and content. I've been trying to get my daughter to read it.
In reply to Brett_Murphy (Agent of Chaos) :
I think it may be his best work regardless of accessibility or age. I have a strong place in my heart for Sam Vimes and the adventures of the Nights Watch, but... Pratchett new he was dying. He wanted to leave behind something for the next generation. He clearly weighed what he thought was most important in life and distilled it into a beautiful series that anyone can understand.
GPz11 (Forum Supporter) said:In reply to Mndsm :
Sorry to hear that your buddy passed.
Thanks.
Believe it or not, that's the easy part for me. Loss sucks, but i'm fine with results. I've long accepted that loss is a part of my life. I've had a lot of practice. It's the anticipation and the wait that gets me. The unknown. the WTF is going on and the I can't do E36 M3 about it. I'm a very "Whatever you're gonna do let's get on with it" type of person.
Mndsm said:GPz11 (Forum Supporter) said:In reply to Mndsm :
Sorry to hear that your buddy passed.
Thanks.
Believe it or not, that's the easy part for me. Loss sucks, but i'm fine with results. I've long accepted that loss is a part of my life. I've had a lot of practice. It's the anticipation and the wait that gets me. The unknown. the WTF is going on and the I can't do E36 M3 about it. I'm a very "Whatever you're gonna do let's get on with it" type of person.
We are very much at this point with my dad. His memory is fading, physically he is so short of energy that he is basically house-bound, and we're just waiting for his CHF to finally kill him.
It sucks.
The skin on the tip of my thumb is messed up so my work phone won't recognize my print for Touch ID, and now I have to type in my pass code manually like a peasant
In reply to gixxeropa :
Register both thumbs?
Holy E36 M3balls.
Last February I had 3 teeth pulled, IV sedation. Sedation not covered by insurance, it was like $300 for 2 hours.
Today i went to the dentist to schedule another extraction, got talked into fixing it instead. $700 AN HOUR for IV sedation, wanting to charge me for 3 hours.
Fine what's your nitrous and halcyon combo cost?
Nitrous is $250, halcyon another $100.
"Can I bring my own nitrous? It'll be food grade though". No, can't do that.
In reply to iansane :
hmm good idea but I think I'm just gonna complain for the next two weeks instead
I'm getting fat again.
Everyone seems to have a short fuse lately and its making places not enjoyable to be.
Dear Panera Bread,
A few notes about your potato soup.
Your grocery store potato soup is berkeleying awful. Not a little awful but over the top berkeleying awful. Awful to the point that Campbell's concentrate would be considered gourmet by comparison.
Seasonings: Do you have any seasonings in the building? Anything. Perhaps some salty dirt from the floor? Could you possibly store some salt and pepper near the pot? Maybe introduce the two so the soup would at least know what salt is. I'm reasonably certain they have never actually been in the same building, they certainly haven't been in the same pot. I have had air with more seasonings than this soup had in it.
Bacon. Did you perhaps buy some halal bacon by accident? Could that be it? Because this stuff tastes nothing like bacon. It doesn't even taste like nothing. I'm not even sure it's supposed to resemble bacon except that potato soup is supposed to have bacon in it. Forgive me if I assumed its identity. (God, I hope that was bacon) I had some bacon the other day and it didn't taste like that. If my childhood memories are accurate, it's closer to the taste of a leggo or a plastic straw. Maybe if a pig could wander through the building while you are cooking your soup it would taste better. Hell, give him a bath in it. Even the aroma of pig E36 M3 would be an improvement over this soup.
Speaking of cooking. Did you actually cook this? Like were there bubbles coming out of the pot? If so, a little more intimate relationship between the heat and the potatoes would add to the gustatory experience. Crunchy potatoes aren't a good thing in any food. Crunchy potatoes in potato soup should be punishable by starvation, or being forced to eat this soup for a year straight. If nothing else it would give your cooks an interest in becoming better at their craft.
While we are on the subject of uncooked potatoes, the base itself was quite watery. Almost to the point of being clear. Perhaps if you actually cooked the potatoes so that some of them dissolve into the base, not only would the potatoes then not be crunchy, but the base wouldn't be completely tasteless and mostly transparent. The base can make or break a good soup. This one is so broken that even Gordon couldn't come up with the cuss words to describe it.
In closing, what was supposed to be an enjoyable lunch experience turned into a science experiment on how to improve an utter failure with merely some salt, pepper, and club crackers. I ran out of salt and I didn't have enough pepper to put my taste buds to sleep but I did have some success with the club crackers as a thickening agent.
I would recommend 50 lashes with a wet noodle, but it's quite obvious that you wouldn't be able to cook the noodle long enough for it to not snap like a dried twig.
Perhaps you should stick to sandwiches.
Not that they are any better.
Hoonigan got bought out by a private equity firm, Wheel Pros, and now said private equity firm is renaming itself to Hoonigan. Well, that's the end of Hoonigan, I bet.
In reply to NickD :
At least as we know it. My experience is they're going to have a LOT of negative equity thy're gonna shift onto the brand and go ahead and berkeley it to death.
NickD said:Hoonigan got bought out by a private equity firm, Wheel Pros, and now said private equity firm is renaming itself to Hoonigan. Well, that's the end of Hoonigan, I bet.
Is that why I heard about Hert leaving? If the PE firm forces them to film with steadicams, I might start watching their videos again.
Toyman! said:Dear Panera Bread,
A few notes about your potato soup.
Your grocery store potato soup is berkeleying awful. Not a little awful but over the top berkeleying awful. Awful to the point that Campbell's concentrate would be considered gourmet by comparison.
Seasonings: Do you have any seasonings in the building? Anything. Perhaps some salty dirt from the floor? Could you possibly store some salt and pepper near the pot? Maybe introduce the two so the soup would at least know what salt is. I'm reasonably certain they have never actually been in the same building, they certainly haven't been in the same pot. I have had air with more seasonings than this soup had in it.
Bacon. Did you perhaps buy some halal bacon by accident? Could that be it? Because this stuff tastes nothing like bacon. It doesn't even taste like nothing. I'm not even sure it's supposed to resemble bacon except that potato soup is supposed to have bacon in it. Forgive me if I assumed its identity. (God, I hope that was bacon) I had some bacon the other day and it didn't taste like that. If my childhood memories are accurate, it's closer to the taste of a leggo or a plastic straw. Maybe if a pig could wander through the building while you are cooking your soup it would taste better. Hell, give him a bath in it. Even the aroma of pig E36 M3 would be an improvement over this soup.
Speaking of cooking. Did you actually cook this? Like were there bubbles coming out of the pot? If so, a little more intimate relationship between the heat and the potatoes would add to the gustatory experience. Crunchy potatoes aren't a good thing in any food. Crunchy potatoes in potato soup should be punishable by starvation, or being forced to eat this soup for a year straight. If nothing else it would give your cooks an interest in becoming better at their craft.
While we are on the subject of uncooked potatoes, the base itself was quite watery. Almost to the point of being clear. Perhaps if you actually cooked the potatoes so that some of them dissolve into the base, not only would the potatoes then not be crunchy, but the base wouldn't be completely tasteless and mostly transparent. The base can make or break a good soup. This one is so broken that even Gordon couldn't come up with the cuss words to describe it.
In closing, what was supposed to be an enjoyable lunch experience turned into a science experiment on how to improve an utter failure with merely some salt, pepper, and club crackers. I ran out of salt and I didn't have enough pepper to put my taste buds to sleep but I did have some success with the club crackers as a thickening agent.
I would recommend 50 lashes with a wet noodle, but it's quite obvious that you wouldn't be able to cook the noodle long enough for it to not snap like a dried twig.
Perhaps you should stick to sandwiches.
Not that they are any better.
Panera is hospital food.
NickD said:Well, that's the end of Hoonigan, I bet.
Will it be the end of idiots with [HOONIGAN] stickers doing takeovers, too?
In reply to eastsideTim :
Hert had a video posted the other day about leaving Hoonigan, mostly for additional growth for his family, no negativity involved. He also left Jan.1 or Feb.1 I can't remember which now so he hasn't been employed there for quite awhile.
In reply to Mndsm and Toyman! :
My wife and I had soup last night. Got it from a can. It was good. We even had a breadbowl. While eating it, my wife said it reminded her of Panera. Then asked my favorite soup that they have. I told her their coffee is acceptable and their bread isn't bad. Even some of their bagels are tasty, though they're an insult to an acutal bagel.
But that is as far as I can go liking anything about Panera. Crappy overpriced hospital food, a cluster-berkeley of an ordering system, and just a mediocre-at-best experience. I do not understand how they're so popular. Literally go to the grocery and go to the soup aisle. It will taste better, be cheaper, be faster, and it is also easier than dealing with their stupid pagers and POS system that always gives me grief. I legitimately do not understand what it is that people like about that place.
In reply to Mndsm :
Hospital food would have been an improvement.
We have a local sports car group (mostly P-car folks) that meets monthly at the local Panera. I stick to the coffee and unsweetened tea. The coffee isn't great, but it's better than Starberkeleys.
Mndsm said:In reply to NickD :
At least as we know it. My experience is they're going to have a LOT of negative equity thy're gonna shift onto the brand and go ahead and berkeley it to death.
It's already gone downhill quite a bit. They ended the contract with their Suppy and Grimm, so no more big builds. Hert left. Dan left. Mostly it's just a lot of This Vs. That, which was great at first but has outstayed it's welcome. I miss when they used to just horse around in the parking lot, or the whole saga of Sh!tcar (sadly reduced to a stripped shell they're selling on eBay)
I don't know, we go to Panera about once a month.
I usually get half a sandwich and a bowl of their tomato soup. It's pretty good, and I usually make tomato soup from scratch at home. DW likes their cheddar broccoli soup, too. I like their sandwiches well enough. They always seem fresh.
I don't think they're game-changer good. But other than price, I don't really have any complaints.
In reply to Duke :
Ita a generation thing. Hoonigan will die once that era has kids and the next gen hops into whatever. Seems to be anime.
Mandatory Saturdays until the end of the year.
But, but, think of all that money you'll make.
Motherberkeleyer, I can't spend any of it if I'm burnt out, numb, and unconscious.
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